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steve? >> steve: all right, thanks. talk about the trouble with schools, a new plan in new york city would let failing teachers quit their jobs with a squeaky clean record, meaning some of our nation's worst teachers could get hired again in another district not knowing about their bad record. education expert and president of the eagle academy foundation, david banks, joins us live today. good morning to you. >> thank you for having me. >> steve: apparently, and this is infuriated a lot of people, when we found out about it. you heard about this for years. if a teacher winds up with an unsatisfactory rating, if they agree to retire, get out of the school district, they will retire with a satisfactory rating on their record. the problem is, then once they retire, they can go someplace else, get a job, and the new school district doesn't realize that that teacher was a dud? >> yeah. it's unfortunate. it's referred to as the dance of the lemons, to have an ineffective teacher have the ability to leave your school, your sc
steve? >> steve: all right, thanks. talk about the trouble with schools, a new plan in new york city would let failing teachers quit their jobs with a squeaky clean record, meaning some of our nation's worst teachers could get hired again in another district not knowing about their bad record. education expert and president of the eagle academy foundation, david banks, joins us live today. good morning to you. >> thank you for having me. >> steve: apparently, and this is...
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steve? >> steve: congratulations to her. this week, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of president richard nixon. our 37th president is often remembered for how his career ended. let's not forget he was also an extremely popular and effective president. last night his career was celebrated in washington at the mayflower hotel where the nixon foundation held a gala. among those in attendants was the former deputy director of the u.s. office of management and budget under president mix inen, he joins us live after a busy night. fred, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: when you look at the people who were in attendance last night and the alumni class of the richard nixon administration, it's very impresssive. >> it really is. i myself became later a ceo of two major corporations and i'm an underachieve in this group. we have a president of the united states, vice president of the united states, four future secretaries of state, two that became secretary treasury, two that became secretary of def
steve? >> steve: congratulations to her. this week, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of president richard nixon. our 37th president is often remembered for how his career ended. let's not forget he was also an extremely popular and effective president. last night his career was celebrated in washington at the mayflower hotel where the nixon foundation held a gala. among those in attendants was the former deputy director of the u.s. office of management and budget...
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let's go to you first, steve. based on our conversations this week, you like this deal a little more than do i. why don't you make the best case for it, for the deal? >> well, paul, this was for republicans a kind of eat your spinach moment. i just don't see any other alternative to what happened. and look, i think this is a rancid deal for so many reasons, especially the fact i think it's harmful to the economy. i guess my point, paul, would be i don't see republicans had much choice. i mean, you talk to john boehner and you talk to mitch mcconnell for six, seven weeks the president would simply not budge one inch on cutting spending and had no interest in doing that. the republicans believed and i think they're probably right if they'd gone into 2013 without the tax issue resolved they'd be pummelled day after day by the presid
let's go to you first, steve. based on our conversations this week, you like this deal a little more than do i. why don't you make the best case for it, for the deal? >> well, paul, this was for republicans a kind of eat your spinach moment. i just don't see any other alternative to what happened. and look, i think this is a rancid deal for so many reasons, especially the fact i think it's harmful to the economy. i guess my point, paul, would be i don't see republicans had much choice. i...
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steve brown is in chicago on this. how close is it to happening, steve? >> well, the illinois house of representatives will be getting together today at 12 eastern time and it is expected that they will take up this legislation that passed throughout committee yesterday, it already passed through the state seven arbgts the legislation that would allow undocumented residents of the state of illinois to get drivers lancess i licenses to pass. it does have by partisan support. one democrat who voted against the mess in your the state senate says republicans are on board with this legislation because they have to be. >> if they are going to remain relevant, that they need to appeal to this growing population, so i think that there was no question in fact that that's why some of them had to sign to support this. >> there is a broad array of religious groups that is pushing this including the roman catholic dioceses of chicago. bill: there is irony in this. this would involve undocumented aliens essentially identifying themselves, they would be coming forward,
steve brown is in chicago on this. how close is it to happening, steve? >> well, the illinois house of representatives will be getting together today at 12 eastern time and it is expected that they will take up this legislation that passed throughout committee yesterday, it already passed through the state seven arbgts the legislation that would allow undocumented residents of the state of illinois to get drivers lancess i licenses to pass. it does have by partisan support. one democrat...
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steve brown with that controversy live from chicago. steve. >> reporter: jon, the bipartisan group of lawmakers who are pushing this legislation have been pushing safety and savings. that if the estimated quarter million unlicensed, undocumented drivers in the state of illinois were to get licenses, pass a driver's test they may are more likely to buy insurance and therefore the highways would be safer and insurance premiums would go down. for the folks in the his ace community in the state of illinois, a growing group for sure it would remove one of the potential consequences of unlicensed driving. >> have you to be extra careful, right? any kind of violation doesn't lead just to a ticket u know, it leads to an arrest and possible deportation. >> reporter: the state senate has already approved this measure. the state house we are told will vote today. the expectation is that it will pass. democratic governor pat quinn will sign it into law. there have been voices of objection including one state senate democrat voting no on the measure
steve brown with that controversy live from chicago. steve. >> reporter: jon, the bipartisan group of lawmakers who are pushing this legislation have been pushing safety and savings. that if the estimated quarter million unlicensed, undocumented drivers in the state of illinois were to get licenses, pass a driver's test they may are more likely to buy insurance and therefore the highways would be safer and insurance premiums would go down. for the folks in the his ace community in the...